654 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX® (HUTCHINSON). | Cyathogyne. 
cuneate at the base, 4-1 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, membranous, entire, 
glabrous ; lateral nerves and veins not or hardly visible; petiole, 
stipules and inflorescence as in P. spathwlifolia. Calyx-lobes 5, oblong, 
obtuse, ciliate, membranous. Disk-glands oblong or obconie, pilose in 
the upper half. Rudimentary ovary columnar, expanded and fleshy at 
the top, glabrous. Filaments flattened, thin, glabrous. Female flowers 
not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambzra; in mixed open forest on 
the Mssindjewe River, Busse, 1042! 
3. C. Dewevrei, Pax in De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, 
i. 49. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base, 
14-2 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, membranous, ‘“ margin repand, subre- 
volute” (Pax); petiole 2 lin. long; stipules linear, equalling the petiole. 
Male flowers not known. Female racemes 4-3 in. long; axis pilose; 
pedicels short ; bracts persistent, small. Sepals 6, oblong, acute. Ovary 
3- or 4-celled ; styles very thick, linear, shortly bifid.—Pax in De Wild. 
& Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 207. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Eastern Province ; Wabundn, Dewevre, 
1142. 
4. C. viridis, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 536. Aherb about 1 ft. 
high, erect from a perennial rhizome; stem hard, usually unbranched, 
glabrous or with a few crisped hairs. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, 
very shortly and obtusely acuminate, narrowed to an acute base, 13-9 
in. long, 3-21 in. broad, subentire or the margin undulate and very 
minutely denticulate, papery, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces, 
midrib pubescent below; lateral nerves 6-9 on each side, looped near 
the margin, inconspicuous on both surfaces; veins very lax, scarcely 
visible ; petiole 2—5 lin. long, pubescent ; stipules subulate or almost 
filiform, acute, about 2 lin. long, pubescent. Male racemes geminate 
on an axillary peduncle; peduncle about } in. long; racemes eer 
# in. long; axis puberulous; bracts about } lin. long, acute ; pea 
very short. Calyx-lobes 5, obovate, about # lin. long, nee 
ciliolate and sparingly pubescent. Anthers parallel and attached: © 
the top, pendulous in bud, afterwards spreading almost at right ang 2 
Disk-glands fleshy, pilose. Rudimentary ovary large, funnel-shapee; 
glabrous. Female racemes about 1 in. long, few-flowered ; aX1S sit 
bracts as in the male; pedicels about 1 lin. long, tomentellous. Calyx 
lobes ovate, subacute, spreading, pubescent. Disk annular, agar 
sparingly pubescent. Ovary pubescent or nearly glabrous ; sty 24 
distinct, thick, glabrous, very shortly bifid. Capsule trilobed, 4 lin the 
diam., shortly pubescent or nearly glabrous. Seeds rounded on 
back, 1} lin. long, faintly many-striate, shining.—Miill. Arg. 12 d 
Prodr. xv. ii. 226; Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1278; De Wild. & Durand, 
Pl, Thonner. Congol. 21; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas: et Moyen-Cong® 
ii. 268. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Corisco Bay, Mann, 1868! Gat’ 
